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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2009-01-21, Page 16M.,,.'r 'j +i -N.--.. -.s•..-.rte -+ Page 16 The Huron sitor January 21, 2009 News Former NDP candidate says reducing fuel and heat consumption will, help with increasing oil costs Dominique Milburn McQuail says there are several Lucknow-area farmer Tony Mc - Quail was one of three Huron Coun- ty residents who attended a recent peak oil conference in Michigan. things Huron County residents can do to deal with increasing oil costs, starting with reducing consumption both for fuel and heat. He also says if we had done that the last time we RF/MW( Land Exchange Ltd. Brokerage Independently Owned & Operated Renate Slener. Broker el Record. 51453' -1177 Ph: 519-527-1577 F x : 519-527-1585 8 Main Street. Seaforth A LOT TO OFFER -I 11,1 RENATE SIEBER Broker of Record 519-357-3332 MAUREEN WILDFONG Sales Representative R r= 519-527-1118 68 Kippen Road. 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And Tony Mc - Quail says one of the objectives of the fifth annual peak oil conference in Michigan was to look at what we can do to deal with increasing energy costs. That discussion included transpor- tation systems similar to the one Mc - Quail talked about during his recent federal election campaign. "Substantial reductions in our en- ergy use is the first step towards dealing with this looming energy crisis," says McQuail. "Things like housing retro -fitting, insulating ceil- ings, better windows, then looking at renewable energy, also looking at the issue of local foodas a major way of reducing the energy intensity of our food production. McQuail says one of the dis- cussions focused on a book written by John Michael Greere called The Long Descent, a User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age. "And he makes the point that what we're going to see is probably a saw- toothed graph of energy pricing going up and coming back down and going up higher and coming back down and going up higher and as we watch industrial society follow a saw -tooth graph in the other direction, going down because we had this specula - • Live housing bubble burst, but it was happening at a time when oil pricing was going way up on a speculative high. So when the price goes spiking up in response to the fact that oil's peaked . and the demand was very high and then it was speculated up, 'that causes demand destruction be- cause companies can't afford the oil, transportation's cut back, companies go bankrupt, they don't ship as much stuff, so the demand for oil goes down for a period of timeAnd because it's dropped, the oil companies lower the price because they want to keep moving the stuff . they don't want demand to drop.... and so the price drops for a while, but then we can expect it to go back up. 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